I guess we're potentially going to need a new repository to distribute open source models. No doubt Nvidia will do everything in their power to make things worse for smaller open source models.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2026
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Totally, it's like when Microsoft bought GitHub.
There needs to be something like a federation of Forgejo instances.
This is bad. HF is a great repository, if Nvidia takes control we can expect restrictions on what kind of models get uploaded and might not allow the models of those companies that don't play into their corrupt AI speculation schemes.
I think we can expect more than that.
I mean yes, they can just take over everything, make it a paid service and only offer a few select models. we can also expect that
They can also make it better than it currently is. And use all hosted models for it's own purposes.
This might include making their proprietary poducts (hardware and software) better and harder to compete with.
Also they may analyze or fingerprint models to see what is being used.
They do not have to enshitify for this to be bad news.
we all know its not gonna end up better in the long run.